iPedia 1.0 Wireless Encyclopedia Released

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=793' target='_blank'>http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=793</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20040823-iPedia-Seattle.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />iPedia is a wireless encyclopedia for MS Smartphone from ArsLexis. iPedia features over 320,000 encyclopedia articles, continually adding and updating of new articles, optimizing for small screens, and more. iPedia is available for 2002 and 2003 based devices. You can download a trial version or purchase the application for $29.95 <a href="http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=793">here.</a> [Affiliate]<br /><br />I really like that we are seeing more and more applications that are taking advantage of the mobile and connected factors in Smartphones, but I don't like the idea of having to pay data charges every time I look something up.

[Jason Dunn]

Ah, but for those of us with flat-rate GPRS, this is very cool. :-) I love apps that take advantage of connectivity! Although if it's 100% online, that's not so good, because I sometimes find myself without GPRS. :-(

[kjk]

I agree it would be the best to have both off-line and on-line capabilities for apps like iPedia. However, in iPedia's particular case it's just not possible. iPedia's data are more than 600 MB uncompressed. After compressing we might half the size to around 300 MB. There aren't many people that would be willing to give up 300 MB on an external memory card for one program.

But the moment we get Smartphones with 10 GB hard-drives, we'll be the first to use that to make off-line version of iPedia.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk | http://www.arslexis.com